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The JPS Guide to Jewish Traditions provides thousands of insights into the origins, history, and current interpretations of a wealth of Jewish traditions and customs. Ronald Eisenberg has distilled an immense amount of material from classic and contemporary sources into a single volume. Chock full of interesting, invaluable and illuminating entries on everything from Hanukkah to Rabbinic...

(Gen. 12:7–8) and at Hebron (Gen. 13:18), and by Jacob, who set up an altar at Beth El, the site of his dream of angels ascending and descending on ladders extending from the earth to Heaven (Gen. 28:18–19). Following the conquest of the Land of Israel under Joshua, there apparently were numerous regional shrines in addition to the central one, which housed the ark containing the tablets of the Ten Commandments, the most sacred object of Israel. The principal feature in each of these shrines was
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